Post A Challenge for Andrew to do on YouTube!

[700NitroXpress]

Build a large ramp, land that ramp on the surface of Moho's largest crater. Then build a rocket powered rover and send it over the ramp at top speed, near the end hit the rockets and don't throttle down. Wherever that rover impacts, if it impacts at all, place another ramp and try to successfully land the jump from ramp to ramp with another rover. If possible, try to jump from one end of the largest crater to the other end and land the jump. Using the debug menu for no crash damage is acceptable, the goal is to make contact with the other ramp. If you do it without the debug menu, this would be impressive. The rover can't use RCS.

[Andrew Hansen]

Finally! After a longer-than-usual wait, I present the Invincib-13 rover.

I'm going to be focusing on the Aeris-4a BSC challenge now, because I love doing BSCs, but I promise you I haven't forgotten about the build-a-rocket/reusable-rocket challenge. It's a challenging one, but I hope to do it! I love all the challenges that are coming in. Thanks everyone!

Edited March 2, 2014 by Andrew Hansen

[Andrew Hansen]

Just want to let everyone know that I'll post my next video tomorrow. It's a BSC: Aeris 4A entry. I love doing BSCs, so excuse me for taking a short break from doing these challenges. After that I will spend some time trying to get good at docking skycranes so I can do the build a rocket/reusable rocket challenge.

I really like the Pegasus-style launch vehicle challenge Xeldrak sent in, as well as all the others.

Just so you know (if you haven't already noticed), I love engineering challenges.

EDIT: Woohoo! I just recorded all the footage of me completing Rakaydos' challenge. I successfully attached an upper stage to a lower stage, launched them to orbit, returned them to Kerbin, launched them to orbit again, and landed once more.

Truly a fun challenge Rakaydos. Thanks! Look forward to an upcoming video in a few days.

Edited March 6, 2014 by Andrew Hansen

[Andrew Hansen]

I've been having a pile of trouble uploading my video to YouTube (the audio/video always gets messed up), but here it finally is.

Edited March 11, 2014 by Andrew Hansen

[Orionblade]

Hey, how about some solid-fuel-only missions? I've done a couple, and used RCS to just circularize or adjust an inclination at the Mun and Minmus, but a solid fuel to orbit isn't actually too difficult. It's mostly timing on the last stage, and a little bit of maneuvering during the burn.

I've been wanting to do a solid-fuel-to-Duna mission, but it's really hard to aim with incremental chunks of delta-V and hit anything out that far.

[ihtoit]

ok. Build a JATO car and glide it to the Island!

[ihtoit]

Get Jeb into space (>70km periapsis) with him experiencing the least 'most gee force endured' (F3 proof). Never tried to do it, so I just don't know if you can go below 2.0G or even 1.5G.

Very easy to keep it to 1.0g: fire up MechJeb and check "Keep To Terminal Velocity", and limit throttle at 60% (for a good gravity turn at 1km-70km, 66% heelover). It is also EXTREMELY fuel efficient.

[SpaceK531]

(recycled suggestion for HOC gamers since they didn't do it)

You should try out the Kerbal Delivery challenge:

There's a base on the moon that suffers from bad planning: everything is too spread out! You need to design a taxi that will ferry each of these kerbals to their destination in the shortest time possible. Watch out though, because it can be pretty difficult!

Challenge skinny: There are 5 locations at the munbase, each with one kerbal that needs to get to another part of the munbase. Time is removed off your score for delivering kerbals, but time is added to your score if you kill, destroy, or flip anything. The one with the lowest time at the end wins!

http://www./download.php?vdkcz9sujod09ju

[Guest]

For Youtube issue you can try converting your video to .webm its the best format for online. Its tiny (more than half less than average avi) with decent quality.

How about trying to beat my own top score of 70.6G with this airplane:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/71950-%C2%A6-UMI-%C2%A6-70G-Airplane

[leafty]

Very easy to keep it to 1.0g: fire up MechJeb and check "Keep To Terminal Velocity", and limit throttle at 60% (for a good gravity turn at 1km-70km, 66% heelover). It is also EXTREMELY fuel efficient.

Obviously, it's easy with MechJeb... Also, try without it and with re-entry too (better, land back at KSC) and no quicksave/reload (that resets the F3 readings).

[ihtoit]

Obviously, it's easy with MechJeb... Also, try without it and with re-entry too (better, land back at KSC) and no quicksave/reload (that resets the F3 readings).

Why on Kerbin would I want to *not* use MechJeb, when I have it available??

[leafty]

Why on Kerbin would I want to *not* use MechJeb, when I have it available??

This is going nowhere. Why on earth (or Kerbin) would people challenge themselves with arbitrary rules when it's easier without them??? Oh, wait, it's called a challenge...

[Andrew Hansen]

Wow! Suddenly lots of people responded. Um... well... the next challenge that I will attempt to do sometime is an SRB-only mission to Duna. I did some research, and it turns out it's totally possible! You just have to detach the SRBs at the right time and do some "fine" trimming with sepatrons (tweaked to have the smallest amount of fuel possible).

ihtoit said...

Very easy to keep it to 1.0g: fire up MechJeb and check "Keep To Terminal Velocity" [when ascending to orbit].

Actually, it's not that easy. Travelling at terminal velocity will still mean you have to accelerate, and by quite a lot as you hit the upper atmosphere. Terminal velocity is the speed at which you're going fast enough to not be wasting fuel against gravity (for instance if you were hovering), and also not blazing through the atmosphere so fast you're getting insane amounts of drag. So that actually would be an interesting challenge.

As far as ihtoit's actual challenge to build a JATO car and fly it to the island runway... I did

(

), but I didn't fly them to the island.

Unfortunately, I don't think I would want to do that one as much as some of the other ones, simply because I think that one is more suitable for two players to compete with each other on (that's also why I don't think SpaceK531's challenge will work for me). I might hit only 1.1 G's, but that isn't very impressive because anyone could do better. If I flew to Duna with SRBs, however, there's not really a way to tell who is "better," and just as long as you actually make it you're equal with everyone else who goes there too.

Sorry if that made no sense at all...

@RevanCorana: The video files I try to upload to YouTube are .mp4 files. I would think they should be well supported since YouTube actually converts your file to .mp4 during upload (that's why you have the option to download your videos as .mp4 files in Video Manager). As far as your challenge goes... that's pretty awesome you got over 70 G's! I don't think I could beat that.

you have too!

So to reiterate, the next challenge I'm hoping to do is to go to Duna and back with SRBs. It won't be the next video I'll post (I'm creating a new Tylo colonization series), but it's hopefully going to be the next community challenge I do.

I updated my previous post with my

by the way.

[Rakaydos]

I've been having a pile of trouble uploading my video to YouTube (the audio/video always gets messed up), but here it finally is.

The hyperedit may disqualify it, but you should post it over at the "Reusable Space program" challange.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/69358-An-Affordable-Space-Program-making-the-reusable-spacecraft-pay-off

[Andrew Hansen]

The hyperedit may disqualify it, but you should post it over at the "Reusable Space program" challange.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/69358-An-Affordable-Space-Program-making-the-reusable-spacecraft-pay-off

Good idea! Thanks, I will.

[Andrew Hansen]

I challenge me to do something! Build a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane capable of a return mission from Tylo without refueling and without staging.

As you've probably suspected, this challenge is scientifically impossible with the usual way of doing things. However, if this spaceplane carries a small Tylo lander that can go to the surface, return to orbit, then dock to the plane... that would work.

I'm going to attempt to do this challenge for the third episode of my new "

" series.

Anyway, here's episode 2 (just uploaded today).

Edited March 19, 2014 by Andrew Hansen

[Andrew Hansen]

I did my challenge! I sent a plane to Tylo and back without refueling. The plane didn't land on Tylo, but it carried a small lander which did. Unfortunately, the lander can't return to orbit without being refueled on the ground, but that wasn't a big issue for my series because I had a Kethane Station on the surface. However, you can easily substitute the lander for a single-Kerbal one, use smaller landing legs, and remove the RTG. I might post another version of the craft which has a lander that can truly land on Tylo and re-dock with the aircraft.

Here's the video:

[zarakon]

1. Do a Mun landing and return without ever opening the map view. No mods either, especially not information-providing mods. Doesn't have to be IVA, just no map. For a greater challenge, do Minmus. For a nearly impossible challenge, do another planet.

2. Land a plane on the island runway, in cockpit view, with the cockpit upside down. Then do it with the cockpit facing backwards.

[Bioman222]

Get the biggest stock fuel tank and put it into a solar escape trajectory.

No mods, cheats, or cfg edits.